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in greek mythology, ganymede was a trojan youth abducted by zeus to serve as cup-bearer on olympus.

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greek mythology → ganymede

a divine greek hero who was abducted by zeus, and became a cup-bearer for the gods

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Ganymede with Zeus as an Eagle (by Oxfordshire Chruches)

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Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) “Ganymede with Jupiter’s Eagle” (1817) Marble sculpture Located in the Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

In Greek mythology the boy Ganymede was carried up into the sky, to the home of the gods on Olympus to be the gods’ taster. According to legend it was Zeus, in the shape of an eagle, who took the beautiful boy from Phrygia in the north-western part of Asia Minor (Turkey). Ganymede was to take the place of Hebe as the taster of the gods, because she spilled the drink – the nectar – that made the gods immortal.

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~ Ganymede. Date: A.D. 100- 200 Culture: Roman Medium: Marble

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Pocket Globe circa 1684, wood, paper, steel, paint, leather, 6.7 (cm) x 6.7 (cm) x 6.7 (cm), German. ~ Alder Planetarium, Chicago

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An Itsy-Bitsy Early 18th-Century Pocket Globe

Among the many interesting historical globes photographed for Sylvia Sumira’s Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation, and Power are a few examples of pocket globes. Here is one made around 1715, by Johann Baptist Homann, a German mapmaker working in Nuremberg. It measures 2 ¾ inches in diameter.

This particular pocket globe came in four pieces that nest inside each other like matryoshka dolls. The outside case, made of leather and featuring an S-shaped hook that secured the two pieces together, is lined with concave representations of a celestial map, showing constellations as seen from the earth. (Celestial globes were among the earliest globes produced, and were once commonly sold alongside their terrestrial cousins.)

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